Julie Hermann, the Rutgers director of intercollegiate athletics, answers a question at a press conference on May 15 in Piscataway.

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Keith Sargeant
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Julie Hermann was hired last May as Rutgers athletics director after her predecessor, Tim Pernetti, was forced to resign as part of the fallout from the physical and verbal abuse scandal involving former men's basketball coach Mike Rice. Not long after her hiring, Hermann landed in the midst of her own coaching abuse firestorm as several members of the Tennessee women's volleyball team accused her of using abusive language when she coached them in the 1990s.

Now, nearly four months after she began her tenure as Rutgers AD, Hermann is at the center of another controversy related to her time as ...